README

Overview: This dataset is the basis of the paper "What do you mean 'climate change'? How the evidence provided to participants of a UK, German and Global citizens' climate assembly framed climate change". This dataset includes coded documents from speaker presentations and written material that the assemblies provided to their participants. It includes general evidence and evidence on energy. Furthermore, data showing our assigned main frames to speaker presentations and written material is included.

Documents: Excel document „main-frames-general-evidence“: contains information about the main frames and their weight allocated to each speaker presentations and chapter of written information on general evidence in the UK, German and Global assembly. 
Excel document “main-frames-energy-evidence”: contains information about which main frames were allocated to each speaker presentations on energy evidence in the UK and German assembly.
The table below shows definitions of numbers and abbreviations used in the excel file. 

Number or Abbreviations	Definition
Assembly 1	UK assembly
Assembly 2	German assembly
Assembly 3	Global assembly
Topic 1		General climate change information
Speaker type 1	Informant
Speaker type 2	Witness
Speaker type 3	Assembly member
DEV 		Fairness between countries
ETH		Fairness between people
SEC		Safety
HU-NA		Human-nature relationship
TECH		Technology and energy
GOV		Governance
ECON A		Alternative economy
ECON M		Market economy
COM		Communication
SCI		Knowledge
PERS		Personal

Folders Germany, Global, UK: these folders contain pdf documents, showing the coding of speaker presentations and written material in the assemblies. The name of the pdf document usually contains the name of the speaker for presentations, and their speaker type (informant, witness or participant (=assembly member)). If a speaker spoke twice in the same assembly, there will be two separate documents for each presentation, with one being named by the speakers name and one being named by the speakers name and a 2. Written information is named as such. 

Data availability and methodology: The data we studied is publicly available on the websites of the assemblies or their YouTube channels. Our methods and coding framework are described in detail in the methods section of the paper. 


